As Rachel Bachman's note in Friday's Oregonian made clear, the University of Oregon's proposed basketball arena is a 99.4 percent pure Nike production

Nike's Phil Knight is throwing $100 million into a "legacy fund" to cover Oregon's losses when the annual revenue in the arena doesn't cover the $20 million in debt service.

Nike's Tinker Hatfield is designing the arena's interior.

And TVA Architects -- which designed the Tiger Woods Conference Center, the Nike World Campus expansion and the Laika Animation Center -- is designing the building exterior, a view of which can be found here.

This, I imagine, is how projects like the country's most expensive college basketball arena got done. The issues at hand are whether Oregon's taxpayers should be on the hook for $200 million in 30-year-bonds for this Nike production, or whether the state should contribute public money to a project that will give one state school (Oregon) a huge competition edge over the cow college in Corvallis.